Testing and Hidden Reserves

Although he didn't stop developing his Devil Fruit abilities after learning about Kozuki Toki, the direction of that development...

"Smack!"

Vegapunk gave Kozuki Toki's butt a hard slap and said with some dissatisfaction:

"I don't think developing this ability is of any use... What I need is an ability closer to Time-Space Travel!"

"Even if you can't develop abilities like going back in time that would disrupt the world's operation, you still need to develop abilities like Future Sight!"

Caught off guard, Kozuki Toki trembled, her face flushed, and her eyes welled with tears; she was almost about to cry out in shame.

With a slight bow of his head, Kozuki Toki gave a barely audible "hmm," and seeing Vegapunk's displeased expression, as if he were about to slap him again, he quickly whined:

"Understood, Lord Vegapunk!"

"Alright, stop bullying Lady Kozuki!"

Another dark-haired beauty lying on the deck spoke with a touch of languor:

"She's already lost her husband and children, and her daughter might have died somewhere unknown... In such a tragic situation, you still want to bully her? Be careful she might do something rash and hang herself!"

Vegapunk rolled his eyes at Robin, who had spoken up. Well, are you taking her side or rubbing salt into her wounds?

After being teased by herself, Kozuki Toki didn't react much. However, after Robin's witty and cunning advice, this mature and elegant beauty immediately teared up and shed tears.

Seeing Kozuki Toki's pitiful state, Vegapunk couldn't help but shake his head.

"Little Robin, I think you're great in every way, except for your sense of aesthetics and that mouth of yours—it's just indescribable!"

Robin just smiled at Vegapunk's words, but the arms massaging Vegapunk involuntarily increased the pressure.

Unfortunately, Vegapunk is no longer the weakling he used to be. Even with Robin's Hana Hana Arms increasing their strength, he only managed to groan a couple of times in comfort, without any further reaction.

"Alright, you woman over there, hurry up and bring me my red wine!"

Another beautiful woman Hancock, who was lying on a deck chair, also spoke up at this moment. Kozuki Toki, who was still secretly grieving, immediately cheered up and brought over a glass of red wine.

Picking up the red wine, Hancock's expression was somewhat absent-minded. After taking a sip, she asked, "Darling, how far are we from the Red Earth Road?"

"We'll be there in about ten minutes... What's wrong? Hancock, are you a little nervous?"

Hancock gave a slightly dangerous smile:

"You're wrong, darling. I'm not feeling nervous... I'm just a little excited!"

"I wonder if the World Government... is satisfied with our gift?!"

The ten-odd minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and soon everyone saw the magnificent Red Line.

Hancock, Nico Robin, and Vegapunk had already seen the Red Line, and Vegapunk and Hancock had even been to the so-called Holy Land Mary Geoise.

However, Hancock only had painful and tragic memories of Mary Geoise, and Vegapunk always came and went in a hurry, at most making some shady underground deals with some Celestial Dragons and the World Government. He didn't have a good impression of that holy land.

Kozuki Toki, having never seen the Red Line before, was momentarily stunned by what she saw.

However, the Pirate World is full of wonders, so the people here are much more mentally prepared for such things. Kozuki Toki, having seen many grand occasions, quickly recovered.

"Sir, how do we get up to this high Red Line?"

"Go up? Why should we go up?"

Vegapunk, with a smile on his lips, began to speak:

"Instead of sending us up... we might as well just send the Red Line down!"

Let the Red Line come down? Kozuki Toki was a little confused for a moment about what Vegapunk meant, but she quickly understood.

Vegapunk first took out a barrel-shaped iron object as tall as a person. On it were engraved codes and some flashing green lights. Then, with a smile on his face, he pressed a few buttons, and the green lights turned red, and a countdown of about five minutes appeared.

"Alright... now it's up to you, Lady Kozuki!"

"When the bomb is about to detonate in five minutes, drop it two hours later, beneath the Red Line!"

Kozuki Toki paused for a moment. The Time-Time Fruit's power was extremely difficult to control, but if it was just an inanimate object and the time was not too long, it wasn't impossible to control.

Furthermore, the Time-Time Fruit, although its name only relates to time, actually also carries a certain spatial attribute. If the time is too long or the place is too far, objects thrown into the future will be randomly teleported. However, the Red Line is right here, and the time is only two hours away. Kozuki Toki can also control where it reappears.

"Okay, I understand..."

Kozuki Toki nodded, walked to the bomb, looked at the flashing numbers on it, and waited silently.

Then, Vegapunk turned his gaze to Hancock, who was rubbing her hands together, eager to try, and nodded slightly:

"Let's get started!"

Upon hearing Vegapunk's words, Hancock's face immediately lit up with excitement, her eyes faintly glowing with golden light, and her Chakra seemed to boil over.

Hancock appeared to be making no move, but Vegapunk's Electromagnetic Sensing detected an unimaginably huge meteorite, comparable to an asteroid, hurtling towards the Red Line in the distance.

Given the size and power of this meteorite, its effects are far greater than those of an ordinary Tengai Shinsei! It could cause destruction on the level of mass extinction.

However, the Pirate World One Piece is much larger than the normal world, and most of it is ocean, so its capacity to withstand impact is also stronger. If it were to actually hit something, it wouldn't necessarily cause ecosystem-level destruction, but it would be quite normal for it to destroy an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, cause tsunamis hundreds of meters high, wipe out dozens of countries, and kill tens of millions of people.

"I'd like to see how the World Government will respond to such a natural disaster."

As he spoke, Vegapunk closed his eyes, and a powerful electromagnetic force connected directly to the interior of a hidden cave beneath the Red Line.

"The Continental Shelf Oscillator... I remember it wasn't installed yet when I left! Is it installed now? Stussy did a really good job, she should be rewarded properly later!"

The seemingly hidden cave, under Vegapunk's electromagnetic manipulation, instantly began to tremble violently. The peeling stone walls revealed a two-meter-sized metal instrument behind it, and a strong sense of shock instantly spread throughout the entire Red Line!

At this point, about five minutes had passed. Kozuki Toki reached out and touched the bomb that Vegapunk had created, and the entire bomb vanished without a trace.

"Okay, let's get out of here quickly!"

After glancing at the increasingly intense tremors on the Red Line in the distance, Vegapunk spoke directly.

Whether it's the Continental Shelf Oscillator, Vegapunk's super Tri-Phase Bomb, or the small meteorite about to fall from space, the destructive range is terrifyingly large, and Vegapunk has no intention of dealing with the aftershocks here.

Hancock Teuchi a massive dimensional rift. The group, ship and crew, departed. Just before leaving, Vegapunk glanced back at the crumbling Red Line, a smile playing on his lips.

"I wonder how many Celestial Dragons will be alive after this?"

If the World Government collapses after this triple strike, Vegapunk can then proceed with his grand plan to rule the entire Pirate World.

If the World Government can still hold on to its last breath, then Vegapunk will first implement a strategy of encircling the cities from the countryside, replacing all the kings and other figures in the Four Seas and the Grand Line, thereby instigating a rebellion to test the strength of the World Government, and finally deciding whether to overthrow the World Government based on the situation.

The black Space Tunnel slowly closed, and the distant Red Line finally collapsed completely amidst tremors, triggering a near-monstrous tsunami!

In the distant sky, a meteor, shimmering with tiny lights, plummeted rapidly, eventually transforming into a massive fireball that blotted out the sun!

Just then, a beam of light shot out from Mary Geoise, striking the center of the fireball in the sky. With a deafening roar, the fireball exploded completely.

Flames and shockwaves instantly filled the entire sky, turning it into a sea of fire. Countless tiny meteors fell from the sky, but at that moment, a strange force surged into the sky, causing all the meteors to pause slightly before flying back in the opposite direction.

The Red Line, which was shaking and collapsing, stabilized instantly after a stream of yellowish-brown light, almost as if it had completely solidified.

In Hancock's Heavenly Realm Space, Vegapunk stroked his chin, carefully observing everything before him, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"What kind of Devil Fruit ability is this? The Float-Float Fruit and the Press-Press Fruit already have owners, is this the Gravity Fruit?"

"No, the trajectories of all the meteors that bounced back were almost exactly the same as their falling trajectories. If it were Gravity Fruit, it wouldn't behave like this... Could it be some kind of Repel Fruit?"

"As for what protects the Red Line... is it the Logia Earth-Earth Fruit, or something else... Stabilization Fruit? Solidification Fruit?"

That's the downside of Devil Fruit; they can produce all sorts of bizarre abilities. There's nothing they can't do, only things you can't imagine. Vegapunk never expected that his killing move would be so easily countered.

Although it certainly caused considerable damage to Mary Geoise, it was still far from the result he had envisioned—at least most of the Celestial Dragons should have died to justify his triple attack!

Most importantly, it seems that he didn't manage to find out any of Mary Geoise's trump cards. At most, he did find out about an attack that could shatter meteors in the sky, which must be a product of some kind of technology.

It all comes down to your own bomb at the end...

However, even two hours later, Vegapunk still hadn't felt the bomb explode, which made him look puzzled.

Just as Vegapunk was pondering, a CP0 agent dressed in a white suit and wearing a mask walked out, carrying his specially made bomb. However, the bomb was now in black and white, like an old photograph, frozen in the air.

"This... the Stasis Fruit? That's quite astonishing, considering the Devil Fruit User's background. But how did the World Government discover the bomb?"

Vegapunk recalled Imu's actions of shredding photographs among the Flower Room and turning off the lights, and his brows furrowed.

"Is this... Future Sight?"

"Is it a derivative ability of Observation Haki, or some kind of peculiar Devil Fruit ability? If it really is Observation Haki, then this Imu's Haki cultivation is extremely abnormal!"

This isn't about predicting your opponent's next move in battle. If you were to try to stop this operation that you planned yourself by using the ability to Future Sight, the scope of the prediction, both in terms of time, would be unbelievably vast.

Adding to his performance in the comics... this guy's Future Sight is probably measured in years, and there are no limitations on its scope.

"I wonder if it really is Observation Haki, and whether Red Hair 'Conqueror's Haki Observation Killing could handle it... Probably not, the difference in skill level is just too great."

"Perhaps with Hancock's current abnormal level of Conqueror's Haki, after learning the Observation Killing technique, she could seal the opponent's Observation Haki, provided that this ability is actually Observation Haki."

"However... unless you directly confront the World Government, the ability to Future Sight probably won't be able to detect it."

Just as Vegapunk was analyzing the situation, the CP0 agent outside, holding a bomb in his hand, slowly walked into the sea, cold sweat dripping down his forehead.

Regardless of what his Devil Fruit ability is, it is obviously not an easy task to stop a bomb that is about to explode, especially the bomb made by Vegapunk. Although it is not very big, once it explodes, it can basically evaporate an entire island instantly.

If this agent's Devil Fruit ability hadn't lasted long enough, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape the blast radius.

But at that moment, the surrounding air vibrated, and an air door was opened on the spot, from which walked a burly man with what looked like a pair of bull horns on his head.

Upon seeing the Air Door open, the CP0 agent's face lit up with joy. He immediately threw the bomb inside, and the burly man with the horned haircut quickly closed the Air Door. The entire space then rippled slightly, and nothing more happened.

"That's... Blueno, the Door-Door Devil Fruit User! I didn't expect him to block my super bomb with that move."

Looking at the situation before him, Vegapunk couldn't help but shake his head. The World Government's Devil Fruit User were truly well-founded and quick-witted. Given the preparations, most underhanded tactics would probably be ineffective.